Section B 2022-01-07 Section A 2022-01-07 "Humans should not try to avoid stress any more than they would shun food, love or exercise." said Dr. Hans Selye, the first physician to document the effects of stress on the body. While here's no question that continuous stress is harmful, several studies suggest that challenging situations in which you're able to rise to the occasion can be good for you. 2022-01-07 Section B 2022-01-07 From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world about us. When humans first 【C1】______ , they were like newborn children, unable to use this 【C2】______ tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kind's future 【C3】______ and cultural growth increased. 2022-01-07 Sometimes it's just hard to choose. You're in a restaurant, and the waiter has his pen at the ready. As you hesitate, he gradually begins to take a close interest in the ceiling, his fingernails, then in your dining partner. Each dish on the menu becomes a blur as you roll your eyes up and down in a growing panic. Finally, you desperately opt for something that turns out to be what you hate. 2022-01-07 According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today's traditional-age college freshmen are "more materialistic and less altruistic (利他主义的) than at any time in the 17 years of the poll. 2022-01-07 Section B 2022-01-07 Public speaking fills most people with dread. Humiliation is the greatest fear; serf-exposure and failing to appeal to the audience come a close second. Women hate it most, since girls are pressurized from an early age to be concerned with appearances of all kinds. 2022-01-07 Section B 2022-01-07